In Reply to: On the other hand posted by drjulian on Wednesday, 2. January 2008 at 13:34 Bali Time:
it's an individual thing for doctors and nurses.
Same for patients. As a patient (though not too patient a daughter who only ever had minor illnesses) i would have preferred 12 hours of fuss and that she'd then run out of fussing over me. Others would have lapped it all up for as long as they could get. Lol.